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I do most days......shopping at Aldi's and other discount grocery stores it's pretty easy. Even beter if you grow your own.

But I typicaly buy 2lbs. of ground beef for about $5 there, and it's enough for two meals: $2.50

Then you can easily make tacos, a meatloaf, a casserole (homemade hamburger helper kinda meal), sloppy joes, etc with about another $2 in supplies. A box of mac n cheese is 35 cents, or a box of scalloped potatoes or rice is 79 cents, taco shells are 79 cents, rolls are 79 cents. A box of pasta 79 cents and $1 for sauce.

Typicaly I save a bit because I make as much as I can from scratch. You could cook half a box of pasta, add a small can of tomato sauce (about 39 cents) and add some shredded cheese, toss in some homegrown veggies and you have a healthier hamburger helper style meal.

A bag of stir fry vaggies with sauce is about $4 there at Aldi, it is enough for two dinners, then I add a chicken breast, shrimp, salmon or steak to it and we have a yummy stir fry for about $5, I don't cook rice with it but you can add some (I'm a diabetic so I go light on carbs)

Whole 5 lb. Chicken $3 on sale at Food 4 Less but I use about $2 worth(left over chicken will turn into a white pizza and carcass will be used for broth)

2 cups of white rice .25 (bought a 20 lb bag of rice for $6.95)

Frozen bag of Asparagus $ 1.00

Orange .30

Lemon .49

Total Cost: $4.04 before tax

Pantry items :

Chipotle Bouillon cubes for a bottle $1.00 (3 cubes)

Onion Bouillon cubes for a bottle $1.00 (2 cubes)

Garlic Bouillon cube for a bottle $1.00 (1 cube)

Garlic salt &1.78 for a big bottle (a pinch)

Olive Oil spray $1.99

Directions:

Preheat oven at 350, Clean and dry bird, grind bouillons and garlic salt, squeeze orange over chicken inside and out, then sprinkle seasoning inside and out, foil tent chicken in oven for one hour, after hour lightly spray bird with olive oil or squeeze last of orange over chicken and leave foil off until bird is golden.

White rice cook with garlic salt

Asparagus squeeze half of lemon on it while cooking. Remove after slight tenderness and squeeze rest of lemon, and zest lemon over asparagus.

White Chicken Pizza or BBQ Chicken Pizza

Left over chicken $1

left over crumbled bacon .50

1 slice of red onion (cut into strips) .05

Ranch or BBQ sauce $ .50 (for half the bottle)

1 cup of Cheese .50

Homemade Pizza Dough (about $1 or less, I have everything in my pantry)

Apple juice or milk free from wic or the milk in fridge was free after coupons at raTotal $3.22 That was fun id idnt' realize how cheap this meal was and it will be four dinners cause i will freeze part of the left overs for kids night i have cereal

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